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LifestyleJonathan Majors was arrested Saturday, March 25, in New York on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment after a domestic dispute, authorities said. Police responded around 11 a.m. to a 911 call inside an apartment in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea. The victim sustained minor injuries to her head and neck and was removed to an area hospital in stable condition.
Jonathan Majors arrested on assault charge in New York
46% Left coverage: 41 sources
Tornado · MississippiSilver City, Mississippi, resident: "We lost everything but got out alive" Residents of Rolling Fork, Alabama, say their homes were leveled by the twister. The twister killed at least 25 in Mississippi and one in Alabama as it surged across the Deep South. The tornado hit the town of just over 200 people about 60 miles northwest of Jackson.
After tornado, harrowing tales of survival in Mississippi
61% Center coverage: 13 sources
ImmigrationTwo people found dead in a railroad car in south Texas were Honduran men, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Saturday, indicating it was investigating the case as possible human smuggling. Read more...
2 dead in rail car; human smuggling investigation indicated
78% Center coverage: 19 sources
Voting · Washingtonhe voting precinct could have been any one of hundreds throughout Chicago, except that these voters in the first round of the mayoral election were all wearing the same beige smocks. And the security at this polling place wasn’t intended to keep disrupters and campaigners out, but the voters in.
Push to expand voting rights in US for those held in jails
58% Center coverage: 31 sources
Basketball · South CarolinaThe Gamecocks will play for their fifth trip to the Final Four in Monday's regional final against 2-seed Maryland. South Carolina dominated the glass from start to finish and used its length to turn every look into a difficult one. Charisma Osborne scored 14 points to lead UCLA, which was in the Sweet 16 for the eighth time.
Aliyah Boston and South Carolina overpower UCLA in women’s Sweet 16
69% Center coverage: 13 sources
Latin America · Port-Au-PrinceRodolphe Jaar, 50, pleaded guilty in Miami to conspiring to provide material support, providing material support and conspiring to kidnap and kill President Jovenel Moise. Jaar is the first of 11 defendants charged in the United States to be convicted in the plot. Dozens have been arrested in Haiti, but the cases are at a virtual standstill.
Suspect in Haitian president's assassination accepts plea deal in Florida
52% Center coverage: 25 sources
Death Penalty · BoiseIdaho Governor Brad Little signed HB 186 -- which would authorize an execution by firing squad when lethal injection is unavailable -- into law just before 3 p.m. Friday, according to his website. Idaho now joins Utah, South Carolina, Mississippi and Oklahoma that allow firing squads for death row inmates.
Gov. Brad Little signs bill to let Idaho execute inmates by firing squad
58% Center coverage: 74 sources
Firefighters · West ReadingFirefighters battled a blaze in Pennsylvania Friday after an explosion at a chocolate factory injured eight people and sent a plume of black smoke into the air above West Reading.
Two dead, nine missing in Pennsylvania chocolate factory explosion
55% Center coverage: 203 sources
